History

‘The Woman King’ dares to ask the question, “What if we gave Viola Davis a big sword?” More movies should do this.

Turns out that making bank on technological spectacle is at the backbone of movie making. Cool.

Before the moving image, there was … the slightly slower moving image.

Here’s lookin’ at you, beautiful final shots.

What connects ‘Nightcrawler,’ ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ and ‘The Naked City’? One 1930s crime scene photographer.

Yoruba Richen’s documentary ‘The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show’ revisits a mostly lost but never forgotten week of television.

Nobody knows what happens next, but here’s what happened last time.

Learn all about the history that inspired Sam Mendes’ World War I film.